Crux of the Matter
Crux of the Matter
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The Crux of the Matter is the podcast that examines disruptive events that threaten to sink businesses, blow up brands and destroy value. Join Astraea’s Nina Stewart and Tanya Costello as they uncover war-stories and insights from those who've 'been there and done that’.
Hear from leaders in their fields who have successfully steered organisations through the full gamut of complex legal, commercial, regulatory, technological and reputational challenges.
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The podcast focuses on themes of disruption in business, crisis management, and strategic navigation, with episodes featuring discussions on navigating corporate scandals, regulatory challenges, and technological shifts such as the impact of digital transformation on traditional industries.
The Crux of the Matter is the podcast that examines disruptive events that threaten to sink businesses, blow up brands and destroy value. Join Astraea’s Nina Stewart and Tanya Costello as they uncover war-stories and insights from those who’ve ‘been there and done that’.
Hear from leaders in their fields who have successfully steered organisations through the full gamut of complex legal, commercial, regulatory, technological and reputational challenges.
Simon Lewis has a long and storied career in public relations, with contemporaries regarding him as one of the country’s top PR men. His career has spanned both the private andpublic sectors. After a career in the city working as Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone, Centrica and NatWest he moved to Number 10 as Director of Communications under Gordon Brown. In 1998, he was appointed as the first Communications Secretary to the late Queen.
He now runs his own PR advisory and presents the popular BBC Podcast ‘When it hits the fan’ with the former Sun editor David Yelland.
The conversation weaves through Simon's varied high-level experiences in PR – at No. 10 Downing Street under then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at Buckingham Palace after the death of Princess Diana and in the corporate world.
Simon reflects on these experiences to
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